Noncommutative Unique Factorization Domains

Unique Factorization Monoids and Domains

It is the purpose of this paper to construct unique factorization (uf) monoids and domains. The principal results are: (1) The free product of a well-ordered set of monoids is a uf-monoid iff every monoid in the set is a uf-monoid. (2) If M is an ordered monoid and F is a field, the ring ^[[iW"]] of all formal power series with well-ordered support is a uf-domain iff M is naturally ordered (i.e...

Lectures On Unique Factorization Domains

Unique Factorization in Integral Domains

Throughout R is an integral domain unless otherwise specified. Let A and B be sets. We use the notation A ⊆ B to indicate that A is a subset of B and we use the notation A ⊂ B to mean that A is a proper subset of B. The group of elements in R which have a multiplicative inverse (the group of units of R) is denoted R×. Since R has no zero divisors cancellation holds. If a, b, c ∈ R and a 6= 0 th...

On Unique Factorization Semilattices

The class of unique factorization semilattices (UFSs) contains important examples of semilattices such as free semilattices and the semilattices of idempotents of free inverse monoids. Their structural properties allow an efficient study, among other things, of their principal ideals. A general construction of UFSs from arbitrary posets is presented and some categorical properties are derived. ...

Foundations and Unique Factorization

This is a difficult question to answer: number theory is an area, or collection of areas, of pure mathematics that have been studied for well over two thousand years. As such, it means different things to different number theorists (of which I am one). Nevertheless the question is not nearly as subjective as “What is truth?” or “What is beauty?”: all of the things that various people call numbe...